Maggie Conran: Progress is easy to overlook

4:36 PM,
Jul. 3, 2013

Liam swimming to the finish line.

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Maggie Conran
Nomommybrain.blogspot.com

When Liam's home-school swim club announced they would be having a swim meet for anyone who wanted to participate, I thought for sure Liam would opt out. He's mentioned on more than one occasion that he's "the slowest swimmer in class" and has rarely, if ever, jumped at the chance to compete. Competing in a race he knows he won't win? No chance.

Since I assumed he wouldn't have any interest, I almost didn't even bother telling him about it. Imagine my surprise when I happened to mention it one day and he ran to put it on his calendar.

Leading up to the meet, I must have reminded him a dozen times that it was ...